Groenewald, Gerald (Univ. of Johannesburg)(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)

This article uses the career of Hendrik Oostwald Eksteen at the Cape between
1702 and 1741 to illustrate the mechanisms free burghers could use to create
wealth in an economically restrictive environment. By making use ...

This essay is an abbreviated version of an inaugural lecture, read on 24 October
2007 at the University of the Western Cape. It investigates the role of cosmological
narratives that help people to understand where they ...

The purpose of this study completed in 2010 was to investigate the use of e-books amongst academic librarians; in
particular which e-books are available to academic librarians, why they choose this format, what impact ...

This special issue embodies a contribution to what we consider to be a critical academic and political debate on the contours and expressions of masculinities in South Africa and how these intersect with the lived realities ...

The article details a study which examined the capacity of public libraries to offer information literacy education in South Africa. It investigates the perceptions of public library staff on their role in information ...

This paper is an analysis of the discourses and attitudes that emerged from a set of daily
journals kept by a particular group of township women during a training course for domestic workers
in South Africa. The principal ...

On the background of the current sense of despair concerning the environmental crisis, this article follows the basic intuition that a Christian environmental praxis can only be empowered on the basis of an adequate ...

This article reflects on how the use of digitised communication and
social media among young black South African women can be situated and
assessed within the current context. The authors focus especially on nuanced ...

The main question addressed by this article is: How can multilingual language
centres based at universities ensure their long term sustainability? Research was
carried out at three centres in the Western Cape to find the ...

Malherbe, Vertrees C.(University of Cape Town)(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2010)

In the wake of the mineral revolution, and the Cape Colony’s attainment of
responsible government, Cape Town’s population doubled in the nineteenth century’s
latter years. Its largely British ruling class, seeing ...

Nasson, Bill (Stellenbosch University)(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)

This article, an expanded version of a 2008 public lecture, explores the life and
times of Adolph Gysbert ʻSailorʼ Malan, a South African who rose to prominence
as a combatant in the 1940 Battle of Britain and who, after ...

This paper aims to contribute to the urban food security debate by exploring the role of informal safety nets and formal food-based social protection in addressing food insecurity challenges facing low-income urban households ...

Several decades of research on ‘urban agriculture’ have led to markedly different conclusions about the actual and potential role of household food production in African cities. In the context of rapid urbanization, urban ...

This essay reconstructs the way in which Douglas John Hall tells the story of God's work. The argument of this essay is that Hall's entire theology could be described as an exposition of the famous formula in John 3:16, ...

In this article we consider the configuration of the South African library and information services (LIS) sector, and analyse the extent to which its structuring facilitates or hinders optimum service to the children and ...

This article analyses the debut novels of the Afrikaans writer Kirby van der Merwe and the Surinamese writer Clark Accord. It focuses on the representation of identity and sexuality to posit an image of the individual ...

Irwin, Ryan M.(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

This essay considers the relationship between the United Nations and the Third
World. Using the apartheid debate as a framing device, it explores Indian and
African nationalism in the mid-1940s and early 1960s. In focusing ...

José Oliver is a multilingual poet of Andalusian descent who writes poetry in German. His first poetry was published in the mid-eighties and his writings were seen as part of migrant literature (also referred to in the ...

The South African government and proffessions are taking stock of the transforamtion of the last decade. Manucipalities still face serious problems such as urbun populattion growth, poverty, housing shortages environmental ...

This study examines if public libraries in a province in South Africa are ready to assume an
enhanced responsibility for information literacy education, specifically that of students, and, if so,
what inhibiting and ...